Friedrich Wield

[1] In 1900, following a study trip to Paris, he began working with Wilhelm von Rümann at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

At the beginning of World War I, he found it necessary to leave France, and went to Winterthur, where he stayed with Arthur Hahnloser [de], a noted art collector.

After being deferred from active military service in Germany, for health reasons, he returned to Hamburg, and worked in a reserve unit there from 1915 to 1918.

In the early 1930s, he received a commission from the Nordische Rundfunk AG [de], that area's first broadcasting company, for a monument to the physicist, Heinrich Hertz.

When the Nazis came to power, they cancelled the commission, due to Hertz's Jewish ancestry, and refused to pay Wield for the work he had already done.